Le Seigneur est l'amour lui-même, exprimé sous la forme de la sagesse elle-même. L'amour, donc, est Son essence, Son plus profond. La sagesse - la compréhension aimante de la façon de mettre l'amour en action - est légèrement plus extérieure, donnant à l'amour un moyen de s'exprimer.

Lorsque la Bible parle de "Jéhovah", elle représente l'amour le plus profond qui est l'essence du Seigneur. Cet amour est un, entier et complet en soi, et Jéhovah aussi est un, un nom appliqué uniquement au Seigneur. La sagesse, cependant, s'exprime dans une grande variété de pensées et d'idées, ce que les Écrits appellent collectivement la vérité divine. Il existe également de nombreux dieux imaginaires, et parfois les anges et les gens peuvent être appelés dieux (le Seigneur a dit que Moïse serait comme un dieu pour Aaron). Ainsi, lorsque la Bible appelle le Seigneur "Dieu", elle se réfère dans la plupart des cas à la vérité divine.

Dans d'autres cas, "Dieu" fait référence à ce que l'on appelle le divin humain. L'affaire est la suivante :

En tant qu'êtres humains, nous ne pouvons pas engager directement le Seigneur comme amour divin. Elle est trop puissante et trop pure. Nous devons plutôt l'approcher en le comprenant à travers la vérité divine. La vérité divine, donc, est le Seigneur sous forme humaine, une forme que nous pouvons approcher et comprendre. Ainsi, "Dieu" est également utilisé en référence à cet aspect humain, car il est une expression de la vérité.

(Odkazy: L'Apocalypse Révélée 21; Arcanes Célestes 300, 391, 624, 2001, 2769, 2807 [2], 4287 [4], 6905, 7268, 10154)

3741. THE GRAND MAN AND CORRESPONDENCE WITH IT - continued

The heavenly kingdom resembles one human being since every specific thing in it corresponds to the only Lord - that is to say, to His Divine Human - who alone is Man, 49, 288, 565, 1894. By virtue of its correspondence with Him, and of its being the image and likeness of Him, heaven is called the Grand Man. The Lord's Divine is the source in heaven of everything celestial, which in essence is good, and of everything spiritual, which in essence is truth. Every angel there is a form, that is, every angel is substance taking a form that is determined by his reception of Divine qualities flowing from the Lord. These Divine qualities which are the Lord's and are received by the angels are called celestial and spiritual because Divine life, and from this Divine light, manifests itself and is modified in them as the recipients.

[2] In addition therefore the forms and material substances with man too are of a similar nature, though they exist in a lower degree since they are grosser and more composite. The fact that these too are recipient forms of celestial and spiritual qualities is quite evident from the plainly visible signs of them - for example, from thought which flows into the organic forms of the tongue and produces speech; from the feelings of mind which manifest themselves visibly in the face; or from the will which passes through the muscles of the body into actions; and so on. The thought and will which produce these activities are spiritual and celestial entities, whereas the forms or substances which receive them and carry them into effect are material. These material substances, it is clear, have been used to produce forms solely for the reception of those spiritual and celestial entities. From this it is evident that spiritual and celestial qualities are the source of the material forms, and that if they were not, such forms could not come into being at all.